Section 370 — Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989: Time limits on detention in secure care

370 Time limits on detention in secure care (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, no child or young person shall be kept in secure care for a continuous period of more than 72 hours, or on more than 3 consecutive days (whether continuously or not), unless an approval has been granted under section 376 of this Act. (2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, no child or young person (being a child or young person who is placed in the custody of the chief executive pursuant to section 42 or section 235 of this Act) shall be kept in secure care for a continuous period of more than 24 hours unless an approval has been granted under section 376 of this Act. (3) In calculating, for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, the period for which a child or young person has been kept in secure care, any period spent in secure care on any of the following days shall not be included: (a) Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labour Day, the Sovereign's birthday, Waitangi Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, or the second day of January: (b) The day observed as the anniversary of the province in which the residence in which the child or young person is detained is situated: (c) Any day that is a public holiday in the place in which that residence is situated. Subsection (2) was amended, as from 1 October 1999, by section 13 Department of Child, Youth and Family Services Act 1999 (1999 No 82) by substituting “ chief executive ” for “ Director-General ” .